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The Brian Lehrer Show / March 28, 2005

The Brian Lehrer Show

Monday, March 28, 2005
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    "War calls come first!"

    Captive Audience

    Keeping in touch with an incarcerated family member can take a heavy toll—literally. Members of the New York Campaign for Telephone Justice discuss efforts to address the mark-up on collect calls from prison, which can often be as high as 600%. Also: Medicare, Hip Hop, and the controversy in Columbia's Middle East Studies Department.

Medical Security

Jonathan Weisman, Financial reporter for the Washington Post
- on social security and medicare trustees analysis that medicare is in more need of attention
» Mr. Weisman's piece on Medicare in the Washington Post

Word Up to the Shake-Up?

Michaela Angela Davis, Executive Fashion and Beauty Editor, Essence Magazine, on a movement to fight negative images of women in hip-hop music
» Essence's "Take Back the Music" series

Middle East Struggle on the Hudson

Jennifer Senior, Contributing Editor at New York Magazine,
- on the controversy at Columbia University's Middle East Studies Department that's not contained to campus
» New York Magazine article

Captive Audience

https://perec.wnyc.org/admin/ Ron Daniels, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and National Chairperson of the Campaign for a New Tomorrow, a people-of-color-led, multi-racial independent political organization,
- on the New York Campaign for Telephone Justice
» Center for Constitutional Rights
and
Denise, a teacher and member of Grace Baptist Church's Prison Ministry whose husband is incarcerated in New York State,
- on the high costs of keeping in touch with incarcerated family members
» Campaign for Telephone Justice

A person dressed as a bear to represent a bear market performs outside the New York Stock Exchange on October 6, 200 in New York. Wall Street tumbled after the opening bell as fallout from the credit crisis triggered concerns about the economy and the Dow fell below 10,000 for the first time in four years.

Uncommon Indicators

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The Brian Lehrer Show wants to hear how the economy is affecting the little things in your daily life. Share your stories and photos of the downturn.

Just Launched! The Uncommon Economic Indicators Video Contest. All the details here!

Ray Young, General Motors Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

The Rocky Road Ahead

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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.

Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.

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Tweet If You Use Twitter

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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.

What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!

(<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexerde/80417539/">alexerde</a>/flickr)

Don't Say That, Literally

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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")

What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!

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From Denmark with Love

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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.

Judge Sotomayor

Squatting, Then and Now

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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.

Video Picks

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Check out some recent video clips of interviews with guests and Brian Lehrer's weekly Web video picks.